Checklist for Installation

Use the following checklist to gather the information that you need to install
the Oracle Solaris OS. You do not need to gather all of the
information that is requested on the worksheet. You need to collect only the
information that applies to your system.

Table 5-1 Installation Checklist

Information for Installation

Description or Example

Answer — Defaults
are noted with an asterisk (*)

Network connection

Is the system connected to a
network?

Networked/Nonnetworked

Auto Registration, a feature of Oracle Solaris

Do you want to provide your
support credentials and proxy information for Auto Registration with Oracle? See What is Auto Registration?

My Oracle
Support user name and password

Proxy server host name and port number

HTTP
proxy user name and password

Network security

Starting with the Solaris 10 11/06 release, you have the option during an initial
installation to change the network security settings so that all network services, except
Secure Shell, are disabled or restricted to respond to local requests only. This
security option is only available during an initial installation, not during an upgrade.
An upgrade maintains any previously set services. If necessary, you can restrict
network services after an upgrade by using the netservices command.

During the installation, you can
select restricted network security. Or, you can enable a larger set of services
as in previous Solaris releases. If in doubt, you can safely select the
restricted network security option, because any services can be individually enabled after installation.
For further information about these options, see Planning Network Security.

Can the system use Dynamic
Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to configure its network interfaces?

DHCP provides the network parameters
that are necessary for installation.

Yes/No*

If you are not using DHCP, note the
network address.

IP Address

If you are not using DHCP, supply the IP address
for the system.

Example: 172.31.255.255

To find this information on a running system, type
the following command.

# ypmatch host-name hosts

Subnet

If you are not using DHCP, is the system part
of a subnet?

If yes, what is the netmask of the subnet?

Example: 255.255.255.0

To
find this information on a running system, type the following command.

# more /etc/netmasks

IPv6

Do you
want to enable IPv6 on this machine?

IPv6 is a part of the
TCP/IP Internet protocol that facilitates IP addressing by adding better security and increasing
Internet addresses.

Yes/No*

Host name

Host name that you choose for the system.

To find this
information on a running system, type the following command.

# uname -n

Kerberos

Do you want to
configure Kerberos security on this machine?

If yes, gather this information:

Yes/No*

Default Realm:

Administration Server:

First
KDC:

(Optional) Additional KDCs:

The Kerberos service is a client-server architecture that provides secure transactions
over networks.

If the system uses a naming service, provide the following information.

Naming
Service

Which naming service should this system use?

To find this information on a
running system, type the following command.

# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf

A naming service stores information in a
central place, which enables users, machines, and applications to communicate across the network.
Examples of information that is stored are host names and addresses or user
names and passwords.

NIS+/NIS/DNS/ LDAP/None

Domain Name

Provide the name of the domain in which the
system resides.

During installation, you can choose the default NFSv4 domain name. Or, you
can specify a custom NFSv4 domain name.

Do you want to specify
a name server or let the installation program find one?

If you want to
specify a name server, provide the following information.

Specify one/Find one*

Server's host name:

For NIS clients, type the following command to display the server's host name.

# ypwhich

For NIS+ clients, type the following command to display the server's host name.

# nisping

Server's
IP Address:

For NIS clients, type the following command to display the server's IP address.

# ypmatch nameserver-name hosts

For NIS+ clients, type the following command to display the server's IP address.

# nismatch nameserver-name hosts.org_dir

Network Information Service (NIS) makes network administration more manageable by providing centralized
control over a variety of network information, such as machine names and addresses.

DNS

Provide
IP addresses for the DNS server. You must enter at least one IP
address, but you can enter up to three addresses.

Server's IP Address:

To display
the server's IP address, type the following command.

# getent hosts dns

You can enter a list
of domains to search when a DNS query is made.

List of domains
to be searched:

The domain name system (DNS) is the naming service
that the Internet provides for TCP/IP networks. DNS provides host names to the
IP address service. DNS simplifies communication by using machine names instead of numerical
IP addresses. DNS also serves as a database for mail administration.

LDAP

Provide the following
information about your LDAP profile.

Profile Name:

Profile Server:

If you specify a proxy credential
level in your LDAP profile, gather this information.

Proxy-bind distinguished name:

Proxy-bind password:

Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol (LDAP) defines a relatively simple protocol for updating and searching directories that
are running over TCP/IP.

Default route

Do you want to specify a default route
IP address or let the Oracle Solaris installation program find one?

The default route
provides a bridge that forwards traffic between two physical networks. An IP address
is a unique number that identifies each host on a network.

You have
the following choices:

You can specify the IP address. An /etc/defaultrouter file is created with the specified IP address. When the system is rebooted, the specified IP address becomes the default route.

You can let the Oracle Solaris installation program detect an IP address. However, the system must be on a subnet that has a router that advertises itself by using the ICMP router discovery protocol. If you are using the command-line interface, the software detects an IP address when the system is booted.

You can choose None if you do not have a router or do not want the software to detect an IP address at this time. The software automatically tries to detect an IP address on reboot.

Detect one*/Specify one/None

Time zone

How do you want to specify
your default time zone?

Geographic region*

Offset from GMT

Time zone file

Root password

Provide the
root password for the system.

Keyboard

This feature is new in the following releases:

For SPARC, starting with the Solaris 10 10/06 release

For x86, starting with the Solaris 10 8/07 release

If
the keyboard is self-identifying, the keyboard language and layout automatically configures during installation.
If the keyboard is not self-identifying, the sysidkdb tool provides you, during the
installation, a list of supported keyboard layouts during installation, so that you can select
a layout for keyboard configuration.

SPARC: Previously, the USB keyboard assumed a self-identifying value
of 1 during the installation. Therefore, all of the keyboards that were not
self-identifying always configured for a U.S. English keyboard layout during installation.

SPARC: Power
Management (only available on SPARC systems that support Power Management)

Do you want to
use Power Management?

Note - If your system has Energy Star version 3 or later,
you are not prompted for this information.

Yes*/No

Automatic reboot or CD/DVD ejection

Reboot automatically after
software installation?

Eject CD/DVD automatically after software installation?

Yes*/No

Yes*/No

Default or custom installation

Do you want
to perform a default installation, or customize the installation?

Select Default installation to format the entire hard disk and install a preselected set of software.

Select Custom installation to modify the hard disk layout and select the software that you want to install.

Note - The text installer does
not prompt you to select a Default or Custom Installation. To perform a
default installation, accept the default values that are provided in the text installer.
To perform a custom installation, edit the values in the text installer screens.

Default
installation*/Custom installation

Software group

Which Oracle Solaris Software Group do you want to install?

Entire Plus
OEM

Entire*

Developer

End User

Core

Reduced Networking

Custom package selection

Do you want to add or remove software
packages from the Oracle Solaris Software Group that you install?

Note - When you select which
packages to add or remove, you need to know about software dependencies and
how Oracle Solaris software is packaged.

Select disks

On which disks do you want
to install the Oracle Solaris software?

Example: c0t0d0

x86: fdisk partitioning

Do you want to
create, delete, or modify a Oracle Solaris fdisk partition?

Each disk that is
selected for file system layout must have a Oracle Solaris fdisk partition.

If your system currently has a Service partition, the Oracle Solaris installation program
preserves the Service partition by default. If you do not want to preserve
the Service partition, you must customize the fdisk partitions. For more information about
preserving a Service partition, see Default Boot-Disk Partition Layout Preserves the Service Partition.

Select Disks for fdisk Partition Customization?

Yes/No*

Customize fdisk
partitions?

Yes/No*

Preserve Data

Do you want to preserve any data that exists on
the disks where you are installing the Oracle Solaris software?

Yes/No*

Auto-layout file systems

Do you
want the installation program to automatically lay out file systems on your disks?